A very good movie

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 2003)

I love zombies. Much more so than vamps or werewolves or possessed children vomiting pee soup. There's something so simple - and yet so methodically terrifying - about zombies and their single-minded feeding goals.
Like "Sixth Sense" was to ghost movies and "The Ring" was to splatter films, I think this movie is morphing zombie flicks, and in a very good way.
The plot is pretty simple affair (how complicated can a zombie move get?). The opening gives me more reasons to hate "greenies" and their naive ways. The protagonist shuffling through the streets of London in hospital digs and a bag of coke cans is just... eerie. Very well done. And the movie does a good job of showing the brutality of the "undead" - and later showing equal "brutality" with the "living" - primarily the rape and a rather gruesome "live on live" death where the protagnoist kills the rapist with thumbs in the eye sockets. The man's death scream is very authentic, and will send chills and bumps up and down your spine and flesh.
Worth the price of admission or a rental, and the fact that its set in London adds to the movie's wonderful feel.
8.5 of 10.